"will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire."

Charismatic Renewal

and Burning Bush

Catholic Charismatic Renewal invites all people to experience the Holy Spirit, who opens us to a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ, and the love of the Father. The Holy Spirit empowers us for personal holiness, renewed Catholic life, and evangelization.

The Charismatic Renewal Office is ready to assist you in establishing a prayer group within your parish. We are eager to provide information on understanding the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they can enrich both your life and the life of your parish community.

Burning Bush Ministry mission is to help people with many particular problems and rehabilitate them and to bring them into the life of the Church.

Through prayer, guidance, and sacramental support, the Burning Bush Ministry helps individuals find freedom from oppressive burdens and spiritual struggles. It focuses on fostering a deeper relationship with God and encouraging personal transformation through faith, education, and community support. By addressing spiritual challenges, the ministry aims to restore peace and wholeness in the lives of those seeking relief.

Contact us at...

716-683-6522 at ext. 109

What is the charism of the charismatic renewal?

When the Holy Spirit manifests his presence through a new religious order, community, or movement in the Church, he gives the group a charism (spiritual gift) that is meant to be shared for building up the Church. Franciscans, Jesuits, Marian Movements, Cursillo, etc. each have a unique gift/charism to offer to the Church. Each group is powerful and effective in the Spirit when it stays rooted in its unique gift. Certainly groups need to adapt themselves to new situations as the Spirit leads, but they cannot lose their rootedness in the original gift they were given for the sake of the Church.  

Steve Clark in his book, Charismatic Spirituality, gives us an important insight: “Charismatic renewal” is best understood as a renewal in the work of the Holy Spirit. That work includes baptism in the Spirit and spiritual gifts, but these can be only understood well in the context of the complete work of the Holy Spirit. They are not supposed to stand out by themselves”

Encouraging the awareness and the experience of the full role of the Holy Spirit among Catholic Charismatic Renewal groups and ministries, with the goal of reminding the Church to be fully conscious of this role. This action of the Holy Spirit leads to:

  • Experiencing union with God

  • Inner transformation, leading to personal holiness

  • Ministry empowered by charisms for evangelization and service

  • Building communities that witness to a renewed Catholic life.”

Scripture Passages on Spirit-led Living and Prayer:

  1. Luke 3: 21-22; 4: 1-21: Jesus’ Baptism, Temptation, and Ministry (upward, inward and outward graces of the Spirit).

  2. 1 Corinthians 12-14: The gifts of the Spirit building up the Church and Spirit-led group prayer (gifts for outward inspiration and service; inwardly transformed to work in unity; upward goal of love).

  3. 2 Timothy 1: 6-7: “stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of hands. For God did not give us a Spirit of cowardice, but rather of power and love and self-control” (power = outward; love = upward; self-control = inward).

  4. Ephesians 3: 14-21: Being filled with all the fullness of God; strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self; Christ dwelling in our hearts through faith; grounded in love (full depth).

  5. Romans 8: 9-39: Spirit inwardly transforming the flesh and interceding within us; upward union with God as “Abba-Father” as children of God and heirs with Christ; God working all things for good for those he has called (outward).

  6. 1 John 2: 24-27: Taught by the Spirit (anointing) while rooted in the Scriptures and the Church (what you heard from the beginning remains in you).

  7. Galatians 5: 16-26: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit;” Spirit overcoming fleshly tendencies and giving us the fruits of the Spirit of love, joy, peace, patience… (inward transformation).